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Arts and Humanities
Digital Humanities Advancement Grants
11/28/17
This NEH program supports innovative digital projects that contribute to public knowledge of the humanities. Three project levels range from $75,000 to $350,000 awards. This cycle is now closed. -
Arts and Humanities
African-American Civil Rights: Preservation and History Grants
10/20/17
This National Park Service grant supports projects that document, preserve and interpret significant sites in the history of African-American civil rights. This competition closed on December 3, 2019. -
Arts and Humanities
Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program
10/20/17
This NPS grant will make awards to support projects that preserve and interpret sites associated with Japanese internment in World War II. Deadline was November 1, 2017. -
Arts and Humanities
Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program
07/24/17
This IMLS grant, $9 million in total, addresses the education and training of the professionals who provide public access to information systems. Deadline was September 27, 2019. -
Arts and Humanities
Ford Foundation
07/24/17
The Ford Foundation's focus post-2020 is on challenging inequality. Grants for media focus on informing the public about complex social issues. Documentary funding is available through the JustFilms program. -
Arts and Humanities
Access to Historical Records: Major Initiatives
06/30/17
This NARA program supports archival projects that promote public discovery and use of archival resources. Grants range $100,000 - $350,000 and a match is required. This funding opportunity ended on February 25, 2021. -
Arts and Humanities
Arts in Education: Professional Development for Arts Educators
04/12/17
This Department of Education program will award up to $375,000 for professional development programs for arts educators. Deadline was May 30, 2017. -
Arts and Humanities
The Statewide Data Infrastructure Project for Arts Education
03/17/17
This cooperative agreement project from the NEA will develop a tool to better extract data and produce reports about states' arts education. Deadline was April 2, 2017.
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Arts and Humanities
Knight (John S. and James L. Knight Foundation)
02/22/17
The Knight Foundation is a top funder of journalism and public media, and an investor in the Press Forward collaborative. They invest in the sustainable and scalable growth of local journalism, as well as program areas in designated local communities, the arts, and impact measurement. Giving for some programs is limited to the 26 designated Knight Communities. -
Arts and Humanities
Kresge Foundation
02/16/17
The Foundation's arts and culture grantmaking focuses on "creative placemaking." Grants also available for college readiness and access. -
Arts and Humanities
Creating Humanities Communities
01/06/17
This new NEH program makes matching awards to collaboratives that produce humanities projects for underserved states and territories. Deadline was February 14, 2018. -
Arts and Humanities
NEA Research Labs
09/07/16
NEA will award cooperative agreements of up to $300,000 with a 1-1 match. Awards support research that investigates the value and/or impact of the arts, either as individual components of the U.S. arts ecology or as they interact with each other and/or with other domains of American life. This would be a good opportunity to discuss with university partners. The 2025 cycle is now closed. The deadline was March 24, 2025. -
Arts and Humanities
Public Humanities Projects
06/22/16
NEH grants of up to $750,000 support planning and implementation projects that bring the humanities to life for the public through public programming. The last deadline was in September 2025. We expect to see new guidelines released in September 2026 with a deadline of December 9, 2026. -
Arts and Humanities
Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions
04/25/16
Provides up to $10,000 to help small institutions improve their ability to preserve and care for their significant humanities collections. The 2025 competition has been canceled. -
Arts and Humanities
Common Heritage
03/29/16
This NEH program offers $12,000 for the digitization of cultural materials provided by the public and accompanying public programming. Deadline was May 31, 2018.
